Posted
by
samzenpus
on Thursday February 17, 2011 @11:38AM
from the take-1,000-aspirin-and-call-me-in-the-morning dept.

abhatt writes "From the article: 'A man in China complaining of headaches and strange taste in his mouth was found to have a 4-inch knife buried in his brain. Doctors examining Li Fu realized the blade had been in his head for four years without him realizing it. The 37-year-old from Yunnan Province suffered a stabbing during a robbery in 2006 while he worked as a cab driver.'"

Taxi driver comes into ER after being stabbed in the head.Doctor examines, administers care, inserts sutures etc etc and the one I don't get MISSES 4 INCH SECTION OF BLADE still in the mans head?

I mean seriously, when a kid gets a gravel knee, the first thing you do is check to make sure that all the gravel bits are out before you put a bandaid/bandage on! Break some glass? Check to make sure all the glass bits are out of the cut!

*stab* *knife snaps from perpendicular force* *knife piece travels inside wound for some reason* *Knife wound looks like a normal stab wound* *Victim goes unconscious right at stabbing due to trauma* And nobody notices because the attacker kept the broken knife/it was lost, the victim can't remember it and heals thinking the pain is part of the wound recovery.

when a kid gets a gravel knee, the first thing you do is check to make sure that all the gravel bits are out before you put a bandaid/bandage on!

One of my first memories (from around 20 years before MRI or CAT scanning were invented) is of my father using a pair of forceps to pull a cm-long piece of gravel out of my forehead, around a week after I'd learned a messy lesson about tobogganing down steep grassy banks onto the level ground of a gravel path (

Since then, yes, even minor wounds are routinely X-rayed ; not to find missing fragments (which would have happened anyway, if the clinician suspected fragmentation), but to document that the wound is clear to keep the lawyers happy.

I remeber I smashed a windows and opened a massive flap on my finger, the hospital flushed it out, x-rayed it, closed it up etc. For a long time afterwards there was pain there when presure was put on it and things felt a bit hard on the skin surface but I didn't think much of either.

Anyway some time down the line while picking at it (yeah I probablly shouldn't do that but it's a habbit i've always had) I felt something way too hard to be skin, as I continued picking at it I revealed a small peice of glass

I wonder if the guy's case is anything like the celebrated case of the railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage [wikimedia.org], who survived having a large iron rod go completely through his head. I wonder if he's experienced any changes in personality similar to Gage's case, in addition to the headaches and the strange tastes.